陕西省一般高等教育专升本招生考试（样题）大学英语注意事项:1．本卷满分为150分考试时间为150分钟2．本卷分试卷一和试卷二第一卷为客观题，考生必须把答案用2b铅笔涂抹在答题卡上；第二卷为主观题，考生直接把答案用墨迹未蓝（黑）色的钢笔、圆珠笔或签字笔写在答题纸上试卷一I. Vocabulary and structure (40%)Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.1. I’ll come to see you tomorrow if ______.A. you’re convenient B. it is convenient for you C. you feel convenient D. it is convenient with you 2. He ran as fast as he could ______ the bus.A. catch B. to catch C. Catching D. caught3. _______ he followed my advice, he would have succeeded.A. When B. If C. Had D. Has4. ______ smoking here will be fined.A. Who B. Whomever C. Anyone D. Whoever5. After______ seemed like hours he came out with a bitter smile.A. which B. it C. what D. that6. ______ is known to everybody, the moon travels round the earth once every month.A. It B. As C. That D. What7. He is always really rude, ______ is why people tend to avoid him.A. that B. it C. this D. which8. Mr. Smith is a painter, ______ I should also like to be.A. that B. which C. who D. it9. According to the rules, students must not ______ their books during examinations.A. read B. watch C. notice D. look at10. Remind him ______ the window when he leaves.A. of closing B. closing C. to close D. close11. On Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Green went to the market, ______ some bananas and visited her cousin.A. bought B. buying C. to buy D. buy12. It was 10 o’clock ______ the front doorbell rang.A. where B. when C. that D. which13. _________, we went for a swim. A. Being hot B. It being hot C. As it is hot D. It was hot14. Before he went abroad, he spent as much time as he could ______ English. A. learning B. learned C. to learn D. have learned15. —Did they all pass the driving test?—No, ____ only three of them who passed it. A. there was B. that was C. there were D. it was16. The “Two Cities” referred to _____ London and Paris. A. is B. be C. are D. going to be17. When _____ why he was painting a sunset, the man replied that he was doing so because he wanted to.A. asking B. asked C. being asked D. having been asked18. ______, I can’t afford to support Paul.A. Such is the case B. Such being the case C. Such to be the case D. Such were the case19. Which do you enjoy ______ your weekends, fishing or watching TV? A. spending B. to spend C. being spent D. spend20. I am sorry I can’t see you immediately, but if you’d like to take a seat, I will be with you ____ moment.A. for the B. in a C. at the D. for a 21. I didn’t expect that he would _______ my failure to achieve his own goal.A. make use of B. base on C. take advantage of D. take account of22. — “Do you know that girl with the long hair?” — “I don’t think so, although she ____ me of someone I knew.”A. remembers B. recalls C. reminds D. suggests23. The noise of the plane died _____ in the distance. A. away B. out C. off D. down24. I am afraid you have no ____ but to come along with us.A. possibility B. selection C. choice D. election25. He told me he had been offered a very well-paid _____ abroad.A. employment B. trade C. position D. work26. How much would you _____ for repairing my watch?A. charge B. demand C. pay D. offer27. Her display of bad temper completely ____ the party.A. damaged B. spoilt C. influenced D. ruined28. We must ____ the simple fact that drugs are dangerous. A. get across B. get down to C. get through D. get over29. No wonder he is getting fat. He seems to restrict his activities ____ eating and sleeping.A. by B. from C. to D. of30. When John was elected president, his country was facing an ______ crisis.A. economical B. economy C. economic D. economics31. I just couldn’t remember her name even though it was on the ____ of my tongue.A. edge B. top C. tip D. front32. There is a real concern that food supplies will not be _____ to feed the increasing population in the world.A. equal B. sufficient C. satisfied D. satisfactory33. I broke my relationship with John because he was always finding _____ with me.A. error B. mistake C. fault D. failure34. Greg is determined to travel alone _______ his friends’ warnings. A. in spite of B. in response to C. instead of D. although35. He would rather do anything ________ prepare for the test. A. other than B. more than C. better than D. less than36. The ________ of traffic on our roads has risen by 50 percent in the past three years. A. plenty B. crowd C. volume D. degree37. The building of the new road has been _____ by bad weather. A. put up B. looked up C. held up D. made up38. All that money brought _______ sadness, misery and tragedy and caused the breakup of his family. A. all but B. nothing but C. anything but D. everything but39. _________ my colleagues and myself I’d like to give a warm welcome to you all. A. In honor of B. In memory of C. On behalf of D. For the sake of 40. The noise was so _____ that only those with excellent hearing were aware of it. A. dim B. soft C. faint D. gentleⅡ. Reading Comprehension (50%)Directions: In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D .You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneAnimation means making things which are lifeless come alive and move.（81）From earliest times, people have always been fascinated by movement, but not until this century have we managed to capture movement，to record it, and in the case of animation，to reinterpret it and recreate it. To do all this, we use a movie camera and a projector.In the world of cartoon animation, nothing is impossible. You can make the characters you create do exactly what you want them.A famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat, created by Pat Sullivan in America in the early nineteen twenties. Felix was a marvelous cat. He could do all sorts of things no natural cat could do like taking off his tail, using it as a handle and then putting it back.Most of the great early animators lived and worked in America, the home of the moving picture industry. The famous Walt Disney cartoon characters came to life after 1928. Popeye the Sailorman and his girl friend Olive Oyl were born at the Max Fleischer studios in 1933．But to be an animator, you don’t have to be a professional. It is possible for anyone to make a simple animated film without using a camera at all. All you have to do is draw directly on to blank film and then run the film through a projector.41. What does the passage mainly discuss?A. Animal world. B. Movie camera. C. Cartoon making. D. Movement.42. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. People were unable to cause the movement to last or record it in the last century.B. Pat Sullivan was a famous early cartoon character.C. It is impossible to make cartoon characters do what they are designed to do.D. In ancient times people were surprised by movement.43. According to the passage, Felix the Cat ________.A. was created by the American cartoonist FelixB. was designed by Pat Sullivan in the early twentieth centuryC. was unable to do what natural cats could not doD. was created in the United States in the nineteenth century44. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.A. Walt Disney’s cartoon characters were born earlier than Pat Sullivan’sB. only professionals can create cartoon charactersC. Popeye the Sailorman and Olive Oyo were famous cartoonistsD. the cartoon industry started in the United States45. Which of the following statements best describes the author’s attitude towards cartoon making?A. Cartoon making is an easy job. Anyone can do it.B. Only trained people can be employed in cartoon making industry.C. Anyone can make cartoons under the instructions of professionals.D. Cartoon making is no easy job. You have to spend much time drawing onto empty film.Passage Two Television was not invented by any one person. Nor did it spring into being overnight. It evolved gradually, over a long period, from the ideas of many people — each one building on the work of their predecessors. The process began in 1873, when it was accidentally discovered that the electrical resistance of the element selenium（硒）varied in proportion to the intensity of the light shining on it.（82）Scientists quickly recognized that this provided a way of transforming light variations into electrical signals. Almost immediately a number of schemes were proposed for sending pictures by wire（it was, of course，before radio).One of the earliest of these schemes was patterned on the human eye. Suggested by G. R. Carey in 1875, it envisioned a mosaic of selenium cells on which the picture to be transmitted would be focused by a lens system. At the receiving end there would be a similarly arranged mosaic made up of electric lights. Each selenium cell would be connected by an individual wire to the similarly placed light in the receiving mosaic. Light falling on the selenium cell would reproduce the original picture. Had the necessary amplifiers（放大器、扩音器）and the right kind of lights been available, this system would have worked. But it also would have required an impractical number of connecting wires. Carey recognized this and proposed to “scan” the cells — transmitting the signal from each cell to its associated light, in turn, over a single wire. If this were done fast enough, the retentive power of the eye would cause the resultant（合成的）image to be seen as a complete picture. 46. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Television in the Electronic EraB. First Steps in the Invention of TelevisionC. The Art of TelevisionD. Harmful Effects of Television Viewing47. In Paragraph 1，the word “being” could best be replaced by ________.A. place B. creature C. subsistence D. existence48. An important discovery in early television was the electrical resistance of ________.A. mosaics B. the human eye C. lenses D. the element selenium49. In 1875, Carey suggested that the human eye envisioned a mosaic of selenium cells on which the picture to be transmitted would be focused by ________.A. wire B. electric lights C. a lens system D. amplifiers50. Following are the reasons why the first scheme for television was abandoned EXCEPT ________.A. he lacks an effective assistantB. the necessary amplifiers were unavailableC. the proper lights were unavailableD. the number of connecting wires is impracticalPassage ThreeThe greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there was a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old.（83）By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, opportunity and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by household appliances and convenience foods．This important change in women's life pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full-time or part-time work.（84）Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.51. For women at the beginning of the twentieth century, the amount of time spent taking care of children ________.A. was shorter than in previous centuriesB. was longer than in previous centuriesC. was considered to be surprisingly longD. account for a great part of their lives52. According to the passage, around the year 1900 most women married ________.A. at about twenty-fiveB. in their early fiftiesC. as soon as possible after they were fifteenD. at any age from fifteen to forty-five53. When she was over fifty, the late nineteenth-century mother ________.A. would be healthy enough to take up paid employmentB. was usually expected to die fairly soonC. would expect to work until she diedD. was unlikely to find a job even if she wanted one54. One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she ________.A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselvesB. does not like children herselfC. need not worry about food for her childrenD. can retire from family responsibilities when she reaches sixty55. According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to ________.A. stay at home after leaving schoolB. marry men younger than themselvesC. start working again later in lifeD. marry while still at schoolPassage FourIcebergs are among nature’s most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being—somewhere—in faraway, frigid waters, amid thunderous noise and splashing turbulence, which in most cases no one hears or sees. They exist only a short time and then slowly waste away just as unnoticed.Objects of sheerest beauty, they have been called. Appearing in an endless variety of shapes, they may be dazzlingly white, or they may be glassy blue, green, or purple, tinted faintly or in darker hues. They are graceful, stately, inspiring in calm, sunlit seas.But they are also called frightening and dangerous, and they are in the night, in the fog, and in storms. Even in clear weather one is wise to stay at a safe distance away from them. Most of their bulk is hidden below the visible top. Also, they may roll over unexpectedly, churning the waters around them. Icebergs are parts of glaciers that break off, drift into the water, float about a while, and finally melt. Icebergs afloat today are made of snowflakes that have fallen over long ages of time. They embody snows that drifted down hundreds, or many thousands, or in some cases maybe a million years ago. The snows fell in polar regions and on cold mountains, where they melted only a little or not at all, and so collected to great depths over the years and centuries．As each year’s snow accumulation lay on the surface, evaporation and melting caused the snowflakes slowly fell on the top of the old, it too turned to icy grains. So blankets of snow and ice grains mounted layer upon layer and were of such great thickness that the weight of the upper layers compressed the lower ones. (85) With time and pressure from above, the many small ice grains joined and changed to larger crystals, and eventually the deeper crystals merged into a solid mass of ice. 56. The author states that icebergs are rarely seen because they are ________.A. broken by waves soon after they are foundB. hidden beneath the mountainsC. located in remote regions of the worldD. enveloped in mystery57. The word “dazzlingly” (Para. 2) probably means ________.A. brilliantly B. faintly C. beautifully D. sickly58. According to the passage, icebergs are dangerous because they ________.A. usually melt quicklyB. can turn over suddenlyC. may create immense snowdriftsD. can cause unexpected avalanches59. The expression “from above” (Para. 5）refers to ________.A. sunlit seas B. polar regions C. weight of mountains D. layers of ice and snow60. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. The Nature and Origin of IcebergsB. The Size and Shape of IcebergsC. The Danger of IcebergsD. The Melting of IcebergsIII. Cloze Test (20分)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D below the passage. You should decide on the ONE that best fits into the passage and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Section A （非英语专业学生做）As the plane circled over the airport, everyone sensed that something was wrong. The plane was moving unsteadily through the air, and __61__ the passengers had fastened their seat belts, they were suddenly __62__ forward. At that moment, the air-hostess __63__. She looked very pale, but was quite __64__. Speaking quickly but almost in a whisper, she __65__ everyone that the pilot had __66__ and asked if any of the passengers knew anything about machines—or at __67__ how to drive a car. After a moment’s __68__, a man got up and followed the hostess into the pilot’s cabin.Moving the pilot __69__, the man took his seat and listened carefully to the __70__ instructions that were being sent by radio from the airport __71__. The plane was now dangerously close __72__ the ground, but to everyone’s __73__, it soon began to climb. The man had to __74__ the airport several times in order to become __75__ with the controls of the plane. __76__ the danger had not yet passed. The terrible __77__ came when he had to land. Following __78__, the man guided the plane toward the airfield. It shook violently __79__ it touched the ground and then moved rapidly __80__ the runway and after a long run it stopped safely.61. A. although B. while C. therefore D. then62. A. shifted B. thrown C. put D. moved63. A. showed B. presented C. exposed D. appeared 64. A. well B. still C. calm D. quiet65. A. inquired B. insured C. informed D. instructed66. A. fallen B. failed C. faded D. fainted67. A. best B. least C. length D. first68. A. hesitation B. surprise C. doubt D. delay69. A. back B. aside C. about D. off70. A. patient B. anxious C. urgent D. nervous71. A. beneath B. under C. down D. below72. A. to B. by C. near D. on73. A. horror B. trust C. pleasure D. relief74. A. surround B. circle C. observe D. view75. A. intimate B. familiar C. understood D. close76. A. Then B. Therefore C. But D. Moreover77. A. moment B. movement C. idea D. affair78. A. impression B. information C. inspections D. instructions79. A. as B. unless C. while D. so80. A. around B. over C. along D. aboveSection B （英语专业学生做）Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In on。